Definition of quack

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Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

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Quack Grass :: Quack grass () See Quitch grass.
Quackish :: Quackish (a.) Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Quackism :: Quackism (n.) Quackery.
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Quack :: Quack (n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Empiricism :: Empiricism (n.) Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery..
Salver :: Salver (n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack..
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
Charlatanry :: Charlatanry (n.) Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
Quackle :: Quackle (v. i. & t.) To suffocate; to choke.
Quacking :: Quacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quac.
Quackled :: Quackled (imp. & p. p.) of Quackl.
Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
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